To put this achievement into perspective, the current ranking of the Top500 supercomputers features Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier as the only known exascale system, with a Linmark benchmark performance of almost 1.2 exaflops. This places Frontier’s peak performance at over twice that of Japan’s Fugaku, the second-ranked system.
Essentially, NVIDIA claims to have developed a supercomputer capable of rivaling the most powerful known system globally. (Meta is also constructing a supercomputer that it asserts will be the world’s fastest AI supercomputer upon completion.) NVIDIA emphasizes that the architecture of the DGX GH200 offers ten times more bandwidth than its predecessor, enabling “the power of a massive AI supercomputer with the simplicity of programming a single GPU.”
